Can you imagine being 4.5 billion years old?  That is the age of the rare 52.8 kilogram meteorite chunk that is being investigated at the Royal Ontario Museum this week by Kimberly Tait, the museum’s curator, and the ROM research team.  The meteorite is about the size of a school packsack, and it was found in Springwater, Saskatchewan last year.  The type of meteorite is called a pallasite – one of 84 found on the entire planet.   There are only 84 pallasites of all the 35,000 meteorites found on Earth.  Inside the rock, to the naked eye, there are translucent greenish spots of a silicate mineral called olivine mixed in with a grey-colored iron/nickel alloy.  What is special about this particular piece of pallasite is… (more…)

For learners to become lifelong learners and well-rounded happy people in society, it is important for us to work with them.  Finding innovative ways of teaching that will produce effective results is a challenge that every teacher faces in the classroom.  Integrating learning with games simply makes teaching and learning fun.  In some cases where needed, it can provide an impetus for re-stimulating a child’s natural desire to learn.This is especially important if, during anywhere in the child’s schooling, there was an overemphasis on making the grade – where making the grade became a subconsciously anxiety-driven displaced goal for recognition and appreciation. (more…)

The 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake released so much energy that it may have slightly shortened the length of the Earth’s day, a NASA scientist says…

…The JPL computer model suggests that the length of the Earth day may have been shortened by 1.26 millionths of a second.  The change in the length of the day came as a result of the shift in the Earth’s axis that occurred because of the quake. The Earth’s figure axis, the imaginary line about which its mass is balanced, shifted by 2.7 milliseconds of arc, or about eight centimetres. (more…)

Did you know that playing alpha-wave music in a classroom such as Baroque, Eastern Asian, or hemi-sync combinations enhances the ability of a student to learn, study, absorb and assimilate information? It is noted by many brain scientists today say that literally anyone can have a Genius Brain if they have the proper nutrition and do particular exercises.

To Think; “Reserve your Right to Think, for to think wrongly is far better than to not think at all”. (Famous Genius Hypathia of Alexandria (350/370-415 A.D.) Hypathia, a gal ahead of her time, was a pioneer for furthering human brain potential.

The human brain is the center of the human nervous system and is a highly complex organ. Brain evolution, from the earliest shrewlike mammals through primates to hominids, is marked by a steady increase in what is known as “encephalization” – (more…)

With technological advances making weather prediction more precise and with visuals on your local news network a great place to see every type of weather condition, teaching about weather has gotten easier. Years ago when your science teacher told you about a hurricane or a tornado, chances were that you would never see one in action in your lifetime – but today that is all different as all you have to do is turn to the Weather Channel and you can see just about anything you want happening somewhere in the world.

Teaching about weather and breaking it down so that children understand it is much easier when you have a graphic illustration that demonstrates exactly what is happening. You can talk all you want about temperatures increasing or decreasing and causing a frontal system that has a high density or a low pressure system moving in – and everyone will look at you and say “What in the world are you talking about?”

But when you can visually demonstrate whatever weather phenomenon you are discussing it makes it so much easier. The weathermen of today use visuals all the time to tell you why you are about to get two inches of snow or a thunderstorm and it makes it so simple to grasp when you can look at a picture and see it visually.

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When she returned to get her elementary education degree while her now 17-year-old son was a small child, she thought she might like to teach kindergarten or first grade, but after student teaching under 6th grade …

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KSMU – Ozark Upper Elementary Science Teacher Lisa Spector

Science encompasses a variety of topics that cover a wide range of material so that when you talk about science you could be speaking about the weather, animal or plant life, the environment, the human body, outer space or the moon and stars or energy from solar to volcanic activity. Being an expert on all of these topics is not necessary, but learning at least a little bit about each will give you a better understanding of what life is all about.

You will learn about dinosaurs and about animals and their habitats and characteristics of each. You will learn which animals make good pets and which ones to avoid. Insects and other bugs that are helpful to the environment and those that are considered pests will be discussed. You will become aware of the environment and how to protect it and the animals, plants and oceans that make up our Earth. You will be in awe of how the earth was formed (more…)

Learning about weather can be exciting and it can also be daunting when you realize how powerful weather can be and the amount of devastation that it can leave in its path. Many people are never affected by weather because the worst things that have occurred where they live is a thunder and lightning storm or a record snowfall, but some types of weather can not only be destructive to property but can take human and animal lives as well.

Unfortunately, this can happen to anyone anywhere in the world although some regions are more prone to particular types of weather conditions such as hurricanes than are others. Winter brings snow to many areas of the country and rain to others and either of these can cause problems for residents. Big snow storms can result in downed (more…)

Mrs. Feliz: Buffalo, New York, United States: I am a 24 year old Elementary Science teacher in Buffalo, NY. I also attend the University of Buffalo’s Bilingual Education Master’s Program. Recently I received the best Mother’s Day Present EVER- my beautiful baby girl born May 11, 2008. View my complete profile … Blogging in the Classroom · Classroom Displays · iTeacher · Recorded Books weblog · Successful Teaching · The Tech-Savvy Teacher …

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